Each round table was invited to submit a blurb summarizing our activities over the last year. I'm going to paste the MAGIRT blurb below. It sounds awfully braggy, but I couldn't help it - we're the coolest round table!

Each round table was invited to submit a blurb summarizing our activities over the last year. I'm going to paste the MAGIRT blurb below. It sounds awfully braggy, but I couldn't help it - we're the coolest round table!

Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT)MAGIRT has transitioned to holding virtual meetings in-between conferences. The Executive Board tends to meet about 3 times in-between conferences and committees are encouraged to meet at least once in between conferences. Committees have the option of meeting at the conferences, but most elect not to except for the Executive Board. Mainly we use Skype, but have also experimented with Blackboard and Adobe Connect. Conference calls remain a viable failsafe method of meeting. About a year ago MAGIRT began subscribing to the popular Libguides content management system. We have both a public guide and a couple private guides for internal use. Some Libguide boxes feed through automatically to our website, which makes it easier to edit content without prevailing upon our webmaster to make changes. Our original wish was to link the best content boxes made by our members through to a MAGIRT guide, but the vendor does not yet allow cross-institutional box sharing. We send our ALA Connect announcements through to a feed on our website and also through to our twitter feed and Facebook page. We’ve made a couple of short online videos for our members on how to use the ALA Connect site and how to use Skype for committee meetings. These were by no means professional productions, just ‘quick and dirty’ videos to help our membership. MAGIRT has also launched a webinar series and has hosted 3 so far. The recordings are available on our Libguide. This summer in Las Vegas we are hosting the program “The Accidental Map Librarian” which will provide advice from our member experts on understanding the basics of maps and map collection management, both paper and digital.

The MAGIRT Executive Board Meeting on Sunday January 26th will begin at 1:30pm rather than 1pm. It is in the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (1201 Market St), room 402.

The MAGIRT Executive Board Meeting on Sunday January 26th will begin at 1:30pm rather than 1pm. It is in the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (1201 Market St), room 402.

The ALA Conference Scheduler reports it as starting at 1pm because ALA locks us into specific meeting time slots. We’re going to allow an extra half hour so people have a little more time for lunch. We have the room up until 4pm, but I expect we’ll be done with the Board Meeting before then, maybe we’ll be done be 3pm? At least we won’t have other groups breathing down our necks to use the room before us and after us.

You must have a microphone and speakers, preferably in the form of a headset, to participate. And Flash has to be installed. I will join the meeting room about 15 minutes early, you can join me to test your microphones & things. Also, Nancy Kandoian and I are going to do a check at 11am on Thursday (EST).

Call to Order

Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

Officer Reports (i.e. apprising the group on what has happened since our last meeting)

Chair

Vice Chair (Emerging Leader Project, Social Events @ Midwinter)

Past Chair (Governing Documents, Nominations & Awards)

Treasurer (Budget)

Secretary

Committee/Discussion Group Reports (i.e. apprising the group on what has happened since our last meeting)

For researchers needing the detailed decennial U.S. Census data tables and American Community Survey sampled data tables, the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) https://www.nhgis.org/ provides census and American Community Survey data. Census information spans from 1790 to recent American Community Surveys.

Don’t let the GIS part scare you. The tables with the data are downloaded separately from the GIS shapefiles.

For researchers needing the detailed decennial U.S. Census data tables and American Community Survey sampled data tables, the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) https://www.nhgis.org/ provides census and American Community Survey data. Census information spans from 1790 to recent American Community Surveys.

Don’t let the GIS part scare you. The tables with the data are downloaded separately from the GIS shapefiles.

Registration is required. The interface will be familiar to frequent users of U.S. Census data.

On Monday July 22, 2013, Paige Andrew and Susan Moore reprised their roles as leaders in RDA map cataloging to host a question-answer session in an ALA-hosted webinar. Some questions presented at the webinar had arisen in the successful program held at the ALA Annual Conference in June 2013, "Maps the RDA Way: Come Catalog a Map with Us!" while others were brought by attendees directly to the webinar.

On Monday July 22, 2013, Paige Andrew and Susan Moore reprised their roles as leaders in RDA map cataloging to host a question-answer session in an ALA-hosted webinar. Some questions presented at the webinar had arisen in the successful program held at the ALA Annual Conference in June 2013, "Maps the RDA Way: Come Catalog a Map with Us!" while others were brought by attendees directly to the webinar.

Also, available is a document that addresses some remaining questions that couldn't be addressed at the webinar. They include questions about the 264 field, square brackets in scale statements, photocopied maps, and ISBD punctuation.

Thank you to all who were able to attend and of course a HUGE thank you to the presenters, Paige Andrew and Susan Moore!